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Saturday, May 27, 2017

All perfectly normal, in Bizzaro World

Come on, Trump supporters, or even quasi apologists. How does this sound in any way, well, not weird? Was it because they were already worried that the authorities were investigating links and communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians? Maybe - but then what did they want to discuss with the Russians in such secrecy that they didn't want any other part of the US government to possibly learn about it? And Kushner is supposed to be one of the liberal advisers around Trump:

Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington discussed the
possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel
between Donald Trump's transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian
diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their
pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to US officials
briefed on intelligence reports.

Ambassador Sergei Kislyak
reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, son-in-law and
confidant to then-President-elect Trump, made the proposal during a
meeting on December 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of
Russian communications that were reviewed by US officials.

Kislyak said Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications.

The meeting also was attended by Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser.

OK, so is this a lie from the Russians to try to hurt Trump? Seems unlikely, given the White House is declining to comment. Is it just unbridled paranoia about the "deep state" trying to stop Trump getting on better with the Russians? There might be something to that if it were just Flynn asking the Russians to do it - he's as mad as a cut snake. But again, Kushner is tied up with the proposal?

It's just very, very strange...

And as for pathetic attempts at false equivalence go, there's a spectacularly silly one from poor old perpetual hand waver CL at Catallaxy:

Last I knew, the US was not supposed to be under permanent threat of full out nuclear attack by a crazy Russian leader who had promised that he would bury capitalism...